Hajiyev: Azerbaijan is always ready for constructive negotiations and  contacts serving the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan is always ready for constructive negotiations and contacts serving the settlement of the Armenian- Azerbaijani conflict, the Deputy Head of  the Foreign Policy Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential  Administration Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend.

He noted that at the CIS summit in Dushanbe, a conversation was held  between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan.  The conversation started at the initiative  of the Armenian Prime Minister, Hajiyev said.

"This once again shows that the format of the negotiations remains  unchanged, and negotiations are conducted only between Armenia and  Azerbaijan, which are parties of the conflict. Within the framework  of the same format, in September, meetings between the foreign  ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were held during the UN General  Assembly in New York, and in July in Brussels. We assess this  positively, and Azerbaijan is always ready for constructive  negotiations and contacts serving the settlement of the  Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. This once again demonstrates  Azerbaijan's commitment to the existing format," Hajiyev said in an  interview to Trend.

To recall in Dushanbe, on the sidelines of the meeting of the heads  of the CIS, there was a short conversation between the Prime Minister  of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan, at which the parties  expressed their commitment to the negotiations on the settlement of  the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, strengthening the cease-fire to  prevent incidents on the Line of Contact and on the border between  Armenia and Azerbaijan, and also decided to develop mechanisms for  establishing operational links between the relevant structures of the  countries.